Polish legislative election, 1919

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Polish legislative election, 1919

The Polish legislative election, 1919 took place on 26 January and were the first election in the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
. The elections, based on universal suffrage

Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the Suffrage to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and noncitizens....
and proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of voting systems aimed at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive ....
, produced a parliament

Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom....
balanced between Right, Left and Center (the communists boycotted it). Among the first tasks of the Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Poland parliament.Before the 20th century, the term "Sejm" referred to the entire three-Chambers of parliament Polish parliament, comprising the lower house , the upper house and the monarch....
was creation of the constitution

Constitution

A constitution is a system for government — often codified as a written document — that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity....
, and the Small Constitution of 1919

Small Constitution of 1919

The Small Constitution of 1919 was the "Legislative Sejm's ordinance of February 20, 1919, entrusting J?zef Pilsudski with the further execution of the office of Naczelnik Panstwa" ....
was voted ten days after the first session, on 20 February 1919. In 1921 a larger but also more controversial constitution (supported by Right, but opposed by Left) was voted for, the March Constitution of Poland.